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Min Jung Jee; Mi Yung Park; Sang Yee Cheon – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated heritage language (HL) maintenance and ethnic identity among Korean heritage speakers in the Pacific region (Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii), an understudied population in the field. It focused on patterns of language use and factors (i.e. age at immigration (AI), self-rated language proficiency, and frequency of…
Descriptors: Korean, Foreign Countries, Native Language, Language Maintenance
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Ruth Kircher; Ethan Kutlu; Mirjam Vellinga – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Language planners are increasingly aware of the importance of new speakers (individuals acquiring a language outside the home, typically later-on in life) for the revitalisation of minority languages. Yet, little is known about new speakers' activation (the process by which they become active and habitual minority language users). This article…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Usage, Language Minorities, Indo European Languages
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Sarah Sok; Anat Schwartz – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated parental involvement in five Korean American families where there was evidence of successful heritage language (HL) maintenance in the second generation. The data in the current study were drawn from interviews of five Korean women who were first-generation immigrants to the U.S. and their daughters who were raised in the…
Descriptors: Korean Americans, Korean, Native Language, Language Maintenance
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Van H. Tran; Sharynne McLeod; Sarah Verdon; Cen Wang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The aim of this study is to identify factors associated with Vietnamese-Australian parents' language use and attitudes towards home language maintenance. Vietnamese-Australian parents (n = 151) with children aged under 18 completed a survey regarding demographic factors and factors conceptualised by Spolsky's language policy theory: language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Native Language, Language Maintenance, Parent Attitudes
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Rhian Hodges – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The Welsh Government's Welsh language strategy, Cymraeg: A million Welsh speakers [Welsh Government. 2017a. "Cymraeg 2050: A Million Welsh Speakers." Cardiff: Welsh Government], aims to increase the numbers of Welsh speakers to one million by 2050. The creation of new Welsh speakers and immersion education form an integral part of the…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Secondary School Students
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Mustapha Bala Tsakuwa; Xu Wen; Abdulkadir Adamu – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Drawing from health-crisis communication literature and anchoring the study on what we have coined as Dressler-Schmidt's endangered language model, we aim to explore the extent to which COVID-19 pandemic has become a language endangerment window for users of English as a second language (ESL) in Nigeria. To achieve this, data was collected from…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, English (Second Language), African Languages
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Ronald Shabtaev; Joel Walters; Sharon Armon-Lotem – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Mountain Jewish immigrants to Israel from the Eastern Caucasus used two heritage languages, Juhuri (Judeo-Tat) and Russian. Juhuri was their home and Russian the societal languages prior to migration. In Israel, Juhuri and Russian are Heritage Languages and Hebrew is the societal language. The present study reports on frequency of use and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Generational Differences, Native Language
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Emma Portugal; Sean Nonnenmacher – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Through the analysis of materials such as online articles, blogs, and radio broadcasts, this paper investigates linguistic purism toward Russian and English loanwords in the understudied context of post-Soviet Armenia. Our analysis finds that public commentators categorize potential loanwords as "borrowings" ([foreign characters…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Russian, English, Linguistic Borrowing
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Chung Chin Wu – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
To date, little attention has been paid to the impact of immersion programs on learning interests in a second language (L2). The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of two types of Hakka-Chinese bilingual programs (immersion vs. non-immersion) on L2 learning interests. Four kindergarten teachers (two in each program)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Students, Second Language Learning
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Lanting Wang; M. Obaidul Hamid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Characterised by media saturation and hypermobility, contemporary society has presented polymedia as an integral element of family life. The expansion and recognition of polymedia in language learning calls for exploring its role in heritage language (HL) maintenance. However, despite growing research interest in polymedia in diverse realms, there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Native Language, Language Maintenance
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Nicholas Limerick – Applied Linguistics, 2024
What opportunities and challenges occur in reclaiming Indigenous languages within state institutions? This article considers the case of intercultural bilingual education in Ecuador. The school system is remarkable as a national-level initiative run by and for Indigenous "pueblos" and nationalities. Based primarily on two years of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Language Usage
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Kleopatra Mytara; Barbara Köpke – Language Learning Journal, 2024
In the vast literature on language attrition, studies on the role of extralinguistic factors in language retention, particularly concerning foreign language (FL) skills acquired in formal instructional contexts, are scarce. We address this issue by focusing on the impact of the frequency of FL use, both extramural and in the classroom, and…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Second Language Learning, Greek, French
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Anna Bax; Mary Bucholtz; Eric W. Campbell; Alexia Z. Fawcett; Inî G. Mendoza; Simon L. Peters; Griselda Reyes Basurto – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2024
Indigenous communities working to reclaim their languages have called for a shift from the traditional research paradigm of language documentation and description, in which outsider scholars set the agenda, to one in which community language workers take on leadership roles at every stage of the process, possibly with secondary support from…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Mexicans, Spanish, English
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Ava Becker – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
International travel is still commonly touted as one of the most effective tools for language learning, yet it remains an elusive activity for those without a certain amount of economic or legal privilege. Although physical return to the home country is not always possible for refugees and their families--even one or more generation after…
Descriptors: Refugees, Cultural Awareness, Story Telling, Personal Narratives
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Yating Huang; Fan Fang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The complexity of language contact and intercultural communication has generated various issues in relation to language use and education. As one of the many Chinese dialects ("fangyans"), the Chaoshan dialect ("Teochew") has been affected by the extensive promotion of Putonghua, the key lingua franca across China, and English,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Mandarin Chinese, Dialects, Language Usage
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